tonight, the new and alarming estimate just in from the head of the cdc. the new models that he says now show 100,000 deaths here in america by june 1st, just two weeks from now, as this country now reopens. among the states starting to reopen, parts of new york. now comes news of a barber who the governor says ignored the guidelines before, staying open. saying the barber now has coronavirus and has infected more than a dozen customers. several states in the northeast revealing their plans for reopening, and what does it mean for the memorial day holiday? tonight, the news from texas. after reopening there, now setting new records in the number of cases and fatalities. and tonight, with 36 million americans now out of work, the news of retail sales plunging more than 16%. that is a record. it was worse than expected.

president trump making news today again on vaccines and the end of the year goal. the defense secretary saying it will be ready to treat americans and our partners abroad. when pressed later, the pentagon said it's a goal, not a promise. the president surrounded by his top health advisers. they were wearing masks tonight. 24 hour after the cdc issued its own warning. the new global alert about the dangerous issue affecting children. it's now believed that there are 200 reported cases in 19 states. and the frustration tonight for so many parents when it comes to testing, when it doesn't give a clear answer. meantime, the growing questions about testing overall. how accurate are the tests here in the u.s.? the false negatives and new analysis suggesting there is a small window for accurate results. and the fda now warning about the rapid tests being used by the white house. the president was asked about that today. overseas tonight, we are following the promising news

about the vaccine in trials at athey have revealed. you want to hear this tonight. what are their next steps? the other news this friday, severe storms. a tornado watch across five states as we come on the air. and the earthquake shuts down parts of u.s.-95. and the f-22 crashing during a training exercise. we have news on that coming in tonight. good evening. it's great to have you with us here as we near the end of another week together. and just before we came on the air tonight, the head of the cdc and that new estimate just in, revealing the latest models now forecasts the number of deaths from coronavirus here in the u.s. will exceed 100,000 by june 1st. of course, that's just a couple of weeks from now. tonight, as this country begins to reopen, the toll on so many families already. more than 85,000 lives now lost. president trump today making news with his hope for a vaccine by year's end. the pentagon later making clear that this is a goal, not a promise. 48 states already beginning to ease restrictions.es

new numbers in just late today from texas showing the dramatic increase in cases. the highest two-day death toll there yet. and in new york state, the governor saying a barber who stayed open despite the state order now has the virus. the governor saying at least a dozen customers now have the virus too. a sign of how difficult reopening in the country will be. testing tonight, how accurate are the tests? the analysis and what it shows about a small window for accurate tests. we're going to guide you through it all on a friday evening. we begin with whit johnson leading us off from new york. >> reporter: tonight, as more states begin to reopen, including parts of new york, the epicenter of the crisis, an alarming new headline. one barber in kingston, new

york, staying open. the hair stylist testing positive for coronavirus. the governor saying he spread the disease to multiple customers and that it serves as a warning. >> a barber in kingston was operating in defiance of the close order. infected, i think, over a dozen people. you can't really socially distance and do a haircut. >> reporter: this as summer-like heat draws more people out of their homes. four northeastern states are now promising to open their beaches by memorial day. >> we got a lot of businesses that's losing money. people ain't working. i think it should be open. wear your face mask and open. >> reporter: from new york to connecticut to delaware and the jersey shore, where today the state hit a new grim milestone -- more than 10,000 deaths from covid-19. >> this week is a test. we're going to look at how many people come, how controllable it was. >> reporter: today new york taking its first steps towards reopening. just five regions in the central and northern part of the state

qualifying for phase one, allowing construction, manufacturing, and retail, limited to pickup and dropoff. >> we need to get the cash flow in. i need to get guys back to work. >> reporter: but while some parts of the state are slowly getting back to work, businesses in hard-hit areas like new york city will just have to wait, where the governor extended the stay-at-home order through at least the end of may. tonight, at least 48 states now easing restrictions, but none of them reporting consecutive 14-day drops in new cases. and in four of those states, infections are actually on the rise. texas reporting the deadliest 48 hours yet, two weeks after easing restrictions following scenes like this at a crowded houston restaurant. governors desperate to lessen the economic pain. more than 36 million americans filing for unemployment. and today the government says retail sales plunged a record 16.4% last month. sales at restaurants and bars slashed nearly in half. >> it is the difference between potentially being able to support one's self long-term as

a business and not. >> reporter: in florida, the governor says starting monday, restaurants can expand to 50% capacity and gyms can reopen. and tonight, new signs of hope out west. the navy hospital ship mercy heading home to san diego, 49 days after arriving in los angeles to alleviate the burden on hospitals. and the roar of the air force thunderbirds soaring over southern california today, honoring our health care heroes. >> extremely powerful. whit johnson with us live here in new york city, along the beach there. i know there will be changes in the days ahead. they want people to be very careful as they begin to reopen the beaches and other parts of new york state. all of this comes with the new estimate from the head of the cdc, just out before we came on. the sobering new projections. they're trying to prepare americans to recognize that the toll could reach more than 100,000 by june 1st. >> reporter: and, david, the cdc director saying in a tweet tonight that 12 different projection models are now

showing that death toll exceeding 100,000 in just the next couple of weeks. meantime, here in new york, where the state is reopening beaches, access is going to be limited to 50% capacity, and all group activities, including sports, will be prohibited. >> we've all got to look out for one another. whit johnson, thank you. the president surrounded by his top medical advisers today. they had masks on. the president did not. but he did reiterate his goal of a vaccine by the year's end. so how likely is that? and what the pentagon made clear shortly after. here's jonathan karl tonight. >> reporter: as the president spoke in the rose garden today, the health experts standing behind him wore masks, while the two cabinet secretaries did not. >> i gave them the option. they could wear it or not. so you can blame it on me. >> reporter: the president announced he is putting former drug company executive moncef slaoui in charge of the effort to develop a vaccine for the coronavirus. >> it's called operation warp speed. that means big, and it means fast.

>> reporter: previous vaccines have taken years to develop, but the president has gone back and forth on whether a covid vaccine could get done before the end of this year. today he said this. >> its objective is to finish developing and then to manufacture and distribute a proven coronavirus vaccine as fast as possible. again, we'd love to see if we can do it prior to the end of the year. >> reporter: defense secretary esper seemed to vow it will be done. >> we will deliver by the end of this year a vaccine, at scale, to treat the american people and our partners abroad. >> reporter: later the pentagon clarified, saying it is a goal, not a promise. this all comes 24 hours after the doctor, who until recently had been leading the charge to develop a vaccine, told congress a vaccine would likely take longer. >> a lot of optimism is swirling around a 12 to 18-month timeframe, if everything goes perfectly. we've never seen everything go perfectly. >> let's get right to jonathan

karl with us live from washington again tonight. president trump hoping the vaccine will be approved and distributed by the end of the year. he has said this before, but even his new point man on vaccine development acknowledges this could be a difficult goal. >> reporter: in fact, mr. slaoui said yesterday dr. fauci's announcement that it would take 12 to 18 months represents an ambitious timeline, but even so mr. slaoui said he would not take this job if he didn't think the goal of developing a vaccine and producing some 300 million doses by the end of the year was not achievable. david? >> jon, thank you. 24 hours after the cdc issued its own new warning, tonight, the new global alert from the world health organization about that dangerous condition affecting children. here in the u.s. tonight, authorities are now tracking more than 220 reported cases in 20 states. and now the frustration for so

many parents, when testing doesn't give a clear answer. stephanie ramos back on the story again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, growing reports of that rare inflammatory illness in children linked to coronavirus. abc news identifying at least 220 possible and confirmed cases in 20 states, plus d.c. more than 100 cases in new york where 3 children have died. >> other states should expect what we have seen. we've noticed that it's four to six weeks after the peak of infections in the state. >> reporter: the cdc sending that urgent alert for doctors to look out for patients with fever, inflammation, multiple organs involvement, and infection or exposure to covid-19 within four weeks. today the world health organization sounding the alarms. brittany boler wants to know if that's what sent her son titus to the e.r., starting with a fever. >> the second day, he was just crying about his tummy. it was like his timing was just hurting and hurting. >> reporter: in a matter of days her son's fever climbing to 104,

and he was vomiting. >> his lips were super red, his eyes were bloodshot red. he was breathing really fast. >> reporter: titus was treated for kawasaki disease and recovered, testing negative for covid-19. but his mother now wants him tested for those antibodies. his symptoms, strikingly similar to 9-year-old bobby dean's in upstate new york, who wound up in the icu, later testing positive for the virus. >> if we didn't get bobby to the doctor's within 24 hours of when we did, they said we very well could have lost him, and that's a really scary thought for us. >> stephanie, with us tonight. i know both boys thankfully recovering, but both families really do want to raise awareness. >> reporter: exactly. bobby's parents are stressing the importance of early detection. the american academy of pediatrics is telling parents if you see any of the symptoms, stomach pain, rashes, fever,

call your doctor. >> stephanie on this for several nights now. thank you. parents frustrated over tests and results that may not always be accurate. and the confusion that can cause. tonight, the new analysis here that tackles false negatives across the country, suggesting there might be a small window for accurate results. also tonight, the fda with a warning about a key rapid test, and it's the one being used by the white house. kaylee hartung tonight on the testing. >> reporter: tonight, a new analysis from johns hopkins university suggests the window for accurate testing, a critical tool to stop the spread of coronavirus, is limited. researchers finding after three days of symptoms, false negatives were reported 20% of the time. on the day symptoms appeared, 38%. but the number of false negatives jumping to 100% when patients were tested after exposure to the virus, but four days before exhibiting symptoms. and tonight, the rapid covid-19 test used by the white house to screen those closest to the president is under scrutiny.

the fda is now alerting the public after it received 15 reports from health care professionals and patients suggesting the test may return false negative results. the president asked today about one preliminary study finding abbot i.d. now missed as many as 48% of positive cases. >> do you have any concerns about the abbott test given some of the new numbers that have come out? >> no, abbott is a great test, it's a very quick test, and it can always be very rapidly double-checked. >> reporter: the fda cautions scientific studies about the test's accuracy have limitations, and those researchers acknowledge they didn't use the test machine as it's intended to be used. abbot says the test can detect a covid infection in a matter of minutes, and the president has repeatedly praised it. >> that's a five-minute test, highly accurate. >> reporter: in a statement, abbott saying, while we understand no test is perfect, test outcomes depend on a number of factors. and when used as instructed, they say, the test works. >> we continue to recommend its use or to have it available for use.

>> let's get to kaylee hartung live with us from los angeles. we hear over and over again how important testing is, frustration about these potential negative results and also frustration from americans who are still telling us that they have found it difficult to even get a test? >> reporter: david, this analysis shows that it's not just important to get a test, it matters when you get tested. so if you have symptoms and get negative results it's recommended that you get another test. david? >> kaylee, thank you. we reported here on the president's hope for a vaccine by year's end. well, tonight there is promising news about the vaccine in trials at oxford and what the trials have revealed in monkeys. of course,hebvus question tonight --hat are the next steps? here's maggie rulli reporting from london. >> reporter: the study is small, but the results are promising. six rhesus monkeys were given a single dose of the vaccine. 14 days later, some of them developed protective antibodies against covid-19. 28 days later, all of them did.

the monkeys were then exposed to high levels of the virus, and the vaccine kept the virus from replicating in the lungs and appeared to prevent damage to them. and injecting the vaccine, which contains a weakened version of the virus, did not cause covid-19 to form in the monkeys. >> what we've seen so far is it works just as we would hope for, and it works nicely. >> reporter: success in monkeys is a key hurdle. they share so much of our dna, but many vaccines that protect monkeys fail on humans. >> i finally got the vaccination done today. >> reporter: human trials began last month, with more than 1,000 volunteers injected so far. >> we can be the people who solve this awful, awful pandemic. >> there's a lot of hope surrounding this one in multiple trials around the world. maggie, the obvious question for folks at home tonight, how soon before we hear about results in those human trials when it comes to this particular trial?

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this empty winery says it's time to reopen. so do a lot of other businesses. they asked the state for permission. that's coming up. i'm glad to be alive. don't get me wrong, i'm so glad and happy to be alive. >> in the rush to reopen, you will want to stop and hear this man's story. coronavirus sent him to the hospital, put him in a coma and almost killed him. >> building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. this weekend will mark two months since most of the bay area started to shelter in place. by monday, most counties will be in stage two of lifting the restrictions. is it too soon? good evening. thank you for joining us. >> we have been sheltering in place to reduce the spread of coronavirus. here is a look at how we are doing.

this graph charts the number of coronavirus cases in the bay area day by day, going back to march. take a look at the yellow line. that's the rolling average. it is going down. that's part of why counties are ready to reopen. marin, san francisco and san mateo will move into phase two monday. alameda and contra costa will follow next week. napa and ssonoma are in phase t. there's a lbig range across the bay area. we will hear from wayne freeman about reopening progress in ma napa county. chris is taking the slowest approach to reopening. >> reporter: officials say the data as well as the science will continue to drive their decision making process.

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